In the two years since they were unveiled Wenlock and Mandeville, the official mascots of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, have already made a big impact in the run up to the Games inspiring thousands of youngsters to take an active part in sport.

Get ready to train like an Olympic athlete with this three-disc fitness album that provides the best cardio-pumping tunes for a spinning class alongside some of the tracks used by Great Britain’s best athletes to motivate them on bitterly cold winter training days.

Forget about Dwain Chambers and Christian Malcolm dropping the baton in the European Championships. Ignore the stuff psychologists are saying about Stella McCartney’s Olympic kit fielding the wrong colours. And who cares about the likely gridlock in London come the end of the month.